The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active particip...

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Autores principales:	Paul Gorsky, Avner Caspi, Avishai Antonovsky, Ina Blau, Asmahan Mansur
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2010
Materias:	academic disciplines disciplinary differences asynchronous forums dialogic behavior community of inquiry model virtual learning community Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d8d8239cc68d4bc3afe5ebd96366730f2021-12-02T18:03:26ZThe relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums10.19173/irrodl.v11i2.8201492-3831https://doaj.org/article/d8d8239cc68d4bc3afe5ebd96366730f2010-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/820https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,” “cognitive presence,” and “social presence.” We found that active participation in the science forums was much higher than in the humanities forums. We also found a ratio among the three presences that was constant across different academic disciplines, as well as across different group sizes and course types.Paul GorskyAvner CaspiAvishai AntonovskyIna BlauAsmahan MansurAthabasca University Pressarticleacademic disciplinesdisciplinary differencesasynchronous forumsdialogic behaviorcommunity of inquiry modelvirtual learning communitySpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2010)
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description	The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,” “cognitive presence,” and “social presence.” We found that active participation in the science forums was much higher than in the humanities forums. We also found a ratio among the three presences that was constant across different academic disciplines, as well as across different group sizes and course types.
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publisher	Athabasca University Press
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The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums

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